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:>OS/2 is not dead.  It's just not as visible as you'd like.  IBM made
:>a conscious decision to push OS/2 into the business market and pretty
:>much forget the home market.  And I can understand completely.  The
:>home market only wants games, and you lose money on every copy sold,
:>because every customer needs tons of tech support.

Part of the home market may only want to run games, but they DO run dos or
winXX. Many of us run a business at home (or second home business), or just
want to continue their office work at home. Is asking for an office suite less
than five years old too much to ask . . . yes, I know the age of the
application is not the point. I bought Smartsuite for OS/2 when it first came
out and removed it from my hard drive about one month later.
 
:>And I'll tell you right now: if all I wanted to do with my computer
:>is play games and do web surfing, I'd be using Win95.  And if all I
:>wanted to do is run office suites and web surfing, I'd be using NT.
:>
:>But I do more than that.  I develop and use large complex programs
:>that must be fast and reliable.  I can do that far easier on the
:>OS/2 platform than I can do on any other PC-based platform.  (I
:>also have this idea of using VoiceType for hands-free web surfing,
:>which I will do once I get a computer fast enough for VT.)

A very small percentage of the people who use computers are programmers. Most
of us use either a word processor, spreadsheet, or presentation program on a
daily basis.

Christopher Sakezles
Materials Science and Engineering
University of Florida